40 "A REAL HAPPY TIME!"-Barnes, Her.-Trib. RICHARD RODGERS & OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN 2nd presen, A New Comedy by SAMUEL TAYLOR Based on the Book of tile Same Name by Robert Fontaine Oirected by ROBERT LEWIS 4ir-Cond. PLYMOUTH. W. 45 St. Mats. Wed. & Sat. PULlnER .PRIZE and CRITICS' AWARD RICHARD RODGERS & OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN 2nd present in association with LELAND HAYWARD & JOSHUA LOGAN MARY MARTIN RAY MIDDLETON · South'N pacific Music by RICHARD RODGERS Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN 2nd Boolc by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN 2nd & JOSHUA LOGAN Adapted from JAMES A. MICHENER'S Pulitzer Prize WlnnlllluTALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC" Directed by JOSHUA LOGAN $cenery & Lighting by Jo Mielziner with MYRON McCORMICK MAJESTIC, 44 St. W. of B'way · Air-Cond. Evenings 8:30 Matinees Wed. & Sat. 2:30. MíCIIAIL TODDS._ ", S . .'t , lIP HOW * , ,} ::' " : " il '; ' , J Stoged by ,', .. IJ ' HASSARD SHORT -: "r . it COiÔ::iëL R'KbY -< \ :- - 'Pd lftl .,., ... t ' >, \J -c · with 0 _ ' CAST OF 100 - \ I I ;ncludtng "A NUMBER OF ß I ",l\ " ' (OMEL Y YOUNG LADIES" ,'" \: '. i , "A smash hit! Big, _ . ,,' . Beautiful, Breezy and , ':' :,::::}, ' , Brash Extravaganza." . '" .. .t:" ,,"'" v. -ROBERT COLEMAN, f, ß Mirror ._ A'R.CONDn'ONED i' B'WAY at 50th ST. WINTER GARDEN NEW YORK 19 "Carol Channing's Lorelei L e-d e is the most __ I fabulous comic creation of this generation." -BROOKS ATKINSON, N. Y. Times ..-. } -0. .. <1 . , Cent Ie men refer Blondes .::::: : \ : ,- :- ...... J -, ,1 Smash Musical Comedy Hitl ZIEGFELD THEA., 54 St. & 6 Ave. I Air-Cond. Mats. Wed. & Sat. -\1) HSAN i on the slatted floor for the peas which bounced about the bus hke bullets Each empty shuck went over the woman's shoulder and out of the window. "It is like 'Hansel and Gretel'" Harriet whispered. V esev looked slowly, uncomprehend- ingly at her, as if he were returning from some remote place, surprised to find her at his side. "The trail of pea shucks," she tried to explaIn. He turned his head to look. "The hirds will devour them," he said "N othing will ever be known of our whereabouts." The long tunnel of leaves began to look impenetrable; each turn of the road revealed only greenness. HIs face re- flected a greenish pallor. Joseph knelt at the window looking out, humming tune- lessly. Deirdre slumped back watching, as if she were hypnotized, the woman shelling the peas. "It has been lovely-" Harriet be- gan, but her stammer caught at the words and she looked away, out of the window, her throat moving, Vesey could see, with embarrassment, so that she was unable to continue. "What has been lovely, my dear girl?" he asked. She pressed the palms of her hands close together between her knees. "It will be so dull when you go back," she said with sudden bravery and resolve. Considering the changes, the prom- ise, of his own near future, he did not know how to answer without conde- scension or discouragement what seemed the obvious truth "You will be all right," he said, smiling, denying her any comfort. "If Mother asks us," DeIrdre sud- denly turned round to inquire, "what do we say we had for lunch?" "That you had tomatoes and potatoes and peas. And bread," Vesey said. "Suppose she says why only that?" "Y ou will say, 'We thought you wouldn't like us to have meat.' " Deirdre rehearsed this under her breath. "Then you will be telling the truth," Vesey said, with his careless smile. "1 didn't have any bread," Joseph said, coming away from the window, which was all steamed with hIS breath. C AROLINE was back from her meet- ing in time for high tea. "My poor little boy!" she said to Joseph, smoothing his cropped head. "Harriet, don't run away" AUGUST I 9, I 9 50 "I ought to go," Harriet said, sitting down. "This is prison fare," said Deirdre casually, looking at her salad. "I said I could have bread any day," Joseph reminded them. " I d " . d V . won er, sal esey, starIng at the children, yet at the same time spreading butter with a cynical delibera- tlon, "I wonder if Harriet and I will be playing hide-and-seek with you to- night." The meat has overexcited them, Harriet thought. She had always heard that it inflamed the baser in- stIncts. "I liked you-know-what," said Joseph. "We had ice cream. I hope that was all right," Harriet said quickly. "There was money over from the shoes," Vesey ex- plaIned. "But there could not have been," Caroline said. "The money was your mother's. You should not exceed what you are allowed." "The ice cream was not the best part of the day," said Joseph. "He was a good boy having his hair cut," Harriet said hurriedlv. "I was a good boy eating my din- din," Joseph said In a babJ voice. "Mother," said Deirdre, "we save a lot of money being vegetarians, don't we? " "Only in doctors' bills," Caroline replied "';\Thy do you ask?" "1 noticed macaroni-cheese was only eightpence." "And here was I feeling sorry for you that they had no vegetarian dish," Caroline said, and laughed. "Vesey bought some nice shoes," Harriet interposed. "Yes, we must look at them after tea " " Th " D . d . d ey are gray, elf re sal . Caroline frowned. "How do you ?" mean-gray "They are gray suède," Vesey said quietly. He looked down sideways at the tablecloth, leaning back in his chair as if fatigued. "Gray suède," said Caroline. "Yes," he said. A little silence fell; or rather, was drawn down. Caroline picked up her cup and drank tea steadIly. Her cheek- bones were scarlet. "Aren't gray shoes nice?" Joseph asked. Caroline smiled as she replaced the cup very quietly in its saucer. "Nice?" she repeated in her amused, indulgent